From tmoreau@tum.de Sun Sep 17 21:51:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!tmoreau From: tmoreau@tum.de (Tomas Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep17.215145.9921@tum.de> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 21:51:45 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Tomas Moreau Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From achoi@utexas.edu Mon Sep 18 16:01:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!achoi From: achoi@utexas.edu (Andrei Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep18.160145.3108@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:01:45 GMT References: <1995Sep17.215145.9921@tum.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Sep17.215145.9921@tum.de>, tmoreau@tum.de (Tomas Moreau) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Andrei Choi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From jdubois@tum.de Tue Sep 19 06:05:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!jdubois From: jdubois@tum.de (Jen Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep19.060545.7082@tum.de> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 06:05:45 GMT References: <1995Sep17.215145.9921@tum.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep17.215145.9921@tum.de>, tmoreau@tum.de (Tomas Moreau) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Jen Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From rokonkwo@uu.net Tue Sep 19 09:18:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!rokonkwo From: rokonkwo@uu.net (Raj Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep19.091845.6455@uu.net> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:18:45 GMT References: <1995Sep17.215145.9921@tum.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep17.215145.9921@tum.de>, tmoreau@tum.de (Tomas Moreau) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Raj Okonkwo Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.